No Charge Consultation

“A good tanning salon consultant is like being a good doctor.”

You must know a patient’s “vitals.” The heart beats, blood pressure and respiration of a salon is reflected in its revenue numbers. I’ve reviewed more than 600 tanning salon company patients in the last 32 years, and used that information for diagnoses, prognosis and health development plans that have not only extended their lives but increased revenues by more than $2,500,000.

The biggest mistake that most clients make in deciding to hire my services is that they wait too long and let issues compound.

Here are some past and current clients who’ve seen real results:

John Farr, the Salon Doctor
Tony and Melissa Hannan

“We had the great experience to work with John’s guidance 20 years ago when we were deeply involved in the video rental business. Tanning is so new to us and John is guiding us all the way through the many challenges that tanning has from salon layout, pricing marketing and soon to train our staff before our grand opening in October. We are super excited about being a part of the ‘bronze biz.’ John has been instrumental in his encouragement, and guidance for equipment, pricing, employee incentives, and training.”

Tony and Melissa Hannan
Sun Spa Tanning, Eureka, CA
Richard Samuels

“John Farr and I have worked together off and on for more than 10 years. We are now going through major changes to our business model and John has been a critical help in analyzing our revenues to determine where we will be ramping up our revenues for 2024. He is also an HR expert, and we needed his guidance and are getting it right when we needed it.”

Richard Samuels
Maximum Tan, Rochester, NY
Lindsay Olson

“It has been a privilege to be a student of John Farr’s guidance for nearly 10 years, and he has taught me so much about handling HR issues. With 29 salons under my authority HR issues are every day and his knowledge of how to handle employee situations is inexhaustible. I have yet to go to him with an issue that he couldn’t figure out. In addition, he has given guidance on every price change we made.”

Lindsay Olson
Chili Pepper's Tanning, Metro Detroit, MI
Connor Bouchelle

“I have learned so much from John Farr about leadership and it has made a significant impact on how I manage my 5 salons and my team. He is an excellent teacher.”

Connor Bouchelle
Sunsational Tanning, Baltimore, MD
Taryn Godman

“We were new owners coming off the shutdown when we contracted with John. He’s helped increase our lotion sales, service sales, and much more. John’s help truly has kept us going!”

Taryn Godman
Tropical Tan, Dry Ridge, KY
Lauren Hum

“How do I start to talk about John Farr’s impact on my new tanning salon? I had two successful beauty salons already, but I knew almost nothing about the tanning business. John has been remarkable. His availability to answer my questions as been wonderful. He was indispensable in our pricing strategy especially because we have a Palm Beach Tan only blocks away. We are more than 25% ahead of last year already. He has been a major factor in training my salon manger on the critical revenue numbers to watch and improve and showing her how to use incentives to increase associate selling efforts. He’s been one of the best investments I’ve made in this business.”

Lauren Hum
Shade Tanning Spa, Conway, AR
Kristin Smithers

“I got into the tanning biz only a few years ago and had to find my way through the weeds” to know what directions to go. John Farr designed our very first pricing strategies and our salon has become a huge success… our PCA last year was more than $300 per customer!”

Kristin Smithers
Sunny Shores Tanning, North East, PA

Ready to Get Started?

Fill out the form below and we’ll get in touch as soon as possible.

"*" indicates required fields

Salon Location*

Give the Doctor Your Salon "Vitals"

Including all products, services, EFT fees etc. during the most current 12 month period and the prior 12 month period.
Services I'm interested in: